Swansea LC2 leisure centre has the world’s first deep water surf machine featured in this commercial photography and architectural photography.
The £32 million leisure centre will be home to Britain's first indoor surfing centre with the revolutionary standing wave machine bringing all the thrills of seaside stand-up and bodyboard surfing indoors - captured in this commercial photography and architectural photography. The surfing facility will be part of a new water park, featuring a network of indoor pools, slides and waves creating Britain's leading indoor water attraction.
The leisure centre boasts:
- Britain's first indoor surfing centre providing waves all-day every day for boogie-boarding and stand-up surfing;
- An indoor water park consisting of a network of pools, water rides, and slides, including the Masterblaster, an uphill water slide.
- A lazy river and an interactive pool with play equipment, a toddler teaching facility in the Lagoon Pool and baby classes in the Kids Pool;
- Multi-purpose sports and exhibition hall for regional sports, conferences and exhibitions, concerts and potential for a temporary synthetic ice rink;
- The pool area increased by almost a third by removing the pool terrace, diving tank and café area to create space for the standing wave machine and interactive pool;
- A dedicated birthday party room;
- Wales' biggest fitness arena with more than 160 items of cutting-edge equipment and monitoring systems, weights and free-motion machines;
- Lifestyle library and dedicated fitness facilities for the under-16;
- Two aerobic studios;
- Health spa and treatments centre
- Café bar, café, party and function rooms and a nine-metre climbing wall.eisure centre with the world’s first deep water surf machine
The Queen and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh have officially opened the Swansea Leisure Centre.
Poject managed by consultant Davis Langdon, the LC is a multi-functional leisure centre which has been transformed into a water park, boasting the world’s first deep water surf machine illustrated in this commercial photography and architectural photography.
The consultant provided a range of services to the City and County of Swansea, including QS, procurement management, project management, CM coordinator services and facilities management. The team included Powell Dobson Architects, engineer Ove Arup & Partners, Hoare Lea who provided M&E services, and contractors Andrew Scott and Laing O’Rourke.
Run by not for profit trust Bay Leisure, the LC is expected to attract up to a million visitors a year up from 200,000 in 2003.
The main contract is £22.2 million with additional costs such as enabling works and state-of-the-art equipment fit-out taking the total cost to £32 million. New environmentally-friendly features including a biomas boiler and backwash heating recovery system will reduce fuel needs and carbon emissions to reduce running costs.
